If this window going to be release I would definitely buy it because it has better out look then the previous one

I haven't tried the Vista beta, so lets get that out of the way first. My biggest problem with Vista (if you can even call it a problem) is that I really don't see a need to upgrade. Sure, it looks better, but I can already get some comparable effects working on XP. My windows have nice, soft shadows. I have a OS X-like dock on the top of my screen. Nvidia users can turn on the transparency effects when dragging windows using the latest official drivers.

Cosmetics aside, I simply don't see a need to upgrade. XP works very well for what I use it for. Security-wise, I don't imagine there will be as much of an improvement upgrading from XP to Vista as opposed to upgrading from 98/ME to XP. It's not as if I do things that require high security anyway. What will push me to upgrade is the release of some sort of killer-app, and frankly, DirectX 10 games won't do it for me. I don't plan on upgrading my computer anymore for the next two years (at which point I'll hopefully have graduated and actually have some sort of income), and it's not like that Halo 2 exclusive for Vista is all that appealing.

But these negative points are really not all that negative. It's just that I don't see a reason to upgrade. If somebody can convince me otherwise, please do. However it looks like I'll be sticking with XP for a little while longer.

~pomorales you are right. Sure I wanna run Crysis in DirectX 10 but then I also have to get a new graphic card, and Halo 2 isn't enough to make me get Vista later + that Microsoft have been talking about som anti-piracy thingy which I'm not so friendly to (not sure if they are going through with this idea).

If you want your computer to look cool, get windows blind or Aston.
The first versions of a new windows usally come with a great deal of bugs, so no Vista for me (at least not on the release).

In my opinion, Vista is too resource hogging to be an OS. I don't see any Vista features that I'd use. There're just eye candies that it makes Vista appealing.
And I agree that I don't really mind security stuff either. Sometimes the security's too high and it takes lots of time to get something done.

Yea vista doesn't look like wow! thats such an improvment, though what ill prob do who knows when is get a new hardrive transfer my files over to it, make a new partition use a vista i "bought" over bittorent and try it out for awhile, i do like the voice feature and the design but i myself am using windowsblinds and a vista sidebar to get the vista look right now , though it is missing a few things. If i really like ill get another off newegg(seeing how it will probably have those authenicate feature). But before i do all that i still have to buy a a new graphics card cuz im running on a 128 mb, and thats bad, prob pick up some more ram to improve me 978ish(says 1 gig but they lie). If you want to learn about all the new feature search it up on wikipedia
ps hi hatesyou!

There really isnt much reason to upgrade os's at all. I mean, why did people get windows 98 over windows 95? Windows 98 really was just more stable and had extremely minor cosmetic upgrades. And if you dont have windows xp 64 edition or windows media center edition, then there are many reasons why you should upgrade. If you don't use those features and the eye candy isnt that appeasling to you, then really there is no need to upgrade. You'll probably end up with vista eventually some how anyway, you could simply wait. OS's cost a lot...

Well, this is my last PC im going to own, im getting an iMac very very very soon. Theres no doubt Vista will be a nice OS, but if I were to get a new pc AFTER the initial release of vista id keep it for a day or 2 and than put XP back on. XP has caused enough headaches with bugginess over the years, I cant imagene what vista would/might do to me.

Vista is such a resource hog. most of the features of Vista are just eye candy in my opinion and i don't think i'd really need them. and if i'm ever going to get Vista i'd wait a a year or two before getting it. XP was a big headache when it was just released.

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In my opinion, Vista is too resource hogging to be an OS. I don't see any Vista features that I'd use. There're just eye candies that it makes Vista appealing.

I agree with this, whats the point of having to have all the latest equipment and rediculous amounts of system resources avalible just to run the OS, I could just upgrade, keep XP and use the extra resources to facilitate what I'm actually doing.

"Vista" and/or "longhorn" was created by collage students pre-melinium and microsoft bought it... messed with it... and added WAY too much GUI... and still isn't close to releasing it... It's a bad choice.

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They took out the heart of it.

XP is much better.. all i can say is Vista = useless.. even more useless than a Tiger.. Vista's requirements are too high, and it is bad.. my Xp still works better though blue-screen a lot.. and i hate Vista because it just destroyed my 1-week old Lenovo..

I don't have a reason to change my windows xp, if you say Vista looks cool I'll tell you to download the vista transformation pack and problem solved, your windows xp will look like Vista (of course i'll not have all the features and stuff).

If someone warrants that ALL my software will run fine in Windows Vista (and better hopefully) I'll make the change, I work with a lot of open source software that I'm not sure it's ready to work with Vista (but hopefully will work soon).

Game makers aernt going to make a totally seperate code for Vista they rather go for the one the've been using this entire time XP, they would gte more sales then just for Vista, Vista beta has alot of obvious bugs to work out.

To be honest, I have not tried the Windows Beta yet. I have tried XP which i have really enjoyed. So at the moment I cannot answer yet. Sorry. :'(

It is indeed true that for the common computer user they will not see a need for upgrade in the near future unless a killer application was made for them to use.

In my experience as a beta tester, Vista (RC1) is better than XP to an extent (and way better than the Beta 2 version but still needs to be ironed out). At least what they say about spyware/adware can't be installing by itself anymore is becoming a reality with User Account Control. This is one of the biggest improvement I've seen in Vista. Normally in XP you would be annoyed by too much limitation if you log on as a standard user. Not anymore. Everything you normally do will now work just as smooth without requiring you to log on as an admin or power user (the latter being eliminated altogether in Vista). Only when you're going to change something that will affect the computer overall will it ask for an admin password, otherwise all processes will run under with a standard user privileges. Even if you log on with administrator account, the same is also true, except that you only have to click "allow" to get administrative processes running. Every processes/applicaitons will be loaded with standard user privileges, no matter what kind of account you are logged on to.

The UAC is working great as is. However, I also found some things that still needs to be ironed out. Accessing some optical drives (CD/DVD-ROM/R/RW -/+/DL) models are still hard at times (in other words it won't read the disc). And when you try to receive files via Bluetooth connection, sometimes it won't recognize the device and thus it won't send the file (yes this is a built-in capability in vista).

There are a lot of other improvements and bugs that still needs to be ironed out, but these are the ones I've encountered quite often so far. Other than that, I expect that support for application that was made for XP and older OSes would be the major stumbling block for the upgrade at first because of compatibility reasons. Also the amount of killer apps for Vista won't be enough to attract people to upgrade for at least a year after it has been released. Of course you can expect new computers on sale with vista already installed on it, but who would want to use an OS without useful apps that can run properly on it?

Finally, when it's out, it would only be able to attract some major business users and people that really into new stuff. Personally I would not recommend you to use it as your primary operating system as soon as it is out, because I'm sure that support for it would still be at a very low level. Moreover I'm sure that as soon as it is RTM-ed and released for public to buy, they will discover more bugs to iron out just like XP was when it was just released. Of course it is a different story if you have a system to play around with.

That's my two cents on Windows Vista.

KK